What is a causeway?

Question

I was reading when i saw the word causeway what dose it mean?

Answer 1

A causeway is an access point ,a throughfare, a road or wide path or trackway through which you gain access to somewhere.

Answer 2

A causeway is like a highway on water that was used by the Aztecs in middle America. It was a raised surface that went from their capital city on an island in lake Texcoco called Tenochtitlan. They had three, to the north, south, and west leading away from the city across the lake.

Answer 3

In modern usage, a causeway is a road or railway elevated by a bank, usually across a broad body of water or wetland.

Answer 4

It's another name for a bridge. Down here in Florida they call the bridges causeways.

Answer 5

I've noticed this term used mainly in places like Florida. They seem to be roadways that connect pieces of land across bodies of water. Sometimes it's over little pieces of land, then sometimes it's a kind of bridge spanning the water, but usually not with overhead structural elements. I've seen places where there are little beaches on the sides of them, like around Tampa, where you can park and swim, fish, whatever.

Answer 6

It's a connection between two pieces of land (often the mainland and an island) that is only exposed at certain states of the tide. It can be either natural or manmade.

Answer 7

It almost always means a bridge going from the mainland to an Island. Never knew why, but these are the only ones I've noticed in my time.

Answer 8

1. A raised roadway, as across water or marshland.
2. A paved highway.

[Middle English caucewei : cauce, raised road (from Norman French caucie, from Medieval Latin calciāta (via), paved (road), from Latin calx, calc-, limestone; see calx) + wei, road (variant of way; see way).]

Answer 9

its a bridge tht goes over water n is a long way!